Hollywood Blvd. News – San Diego Chargers Edition
- Updated: October 22, 2014
We like to start our day searching the web and reading articles about our beloved LA sports teams. It’s easy to get lost in the depth of the inter web, but luckily for you we have compiled a list of the most interesting and pertinent news stories for your morning reading pleasure. For this edition, let’s dive into the news surrounding the San Diego Chargers.
Are the Chargers not as good as their record suggests? That is the question Matt Caulkins of U-T San Diego poses readers and fans.
“The Chargers are 5-2. Abandon ship!”
That was the fan tweet that came seconds after the San Diego Chargers’ 23-20 loss to the Chiefs on Sunday. It was funny and cute and clearly satirical toward a sports culture that overreacts to everything.
So with San Diego Chargers five-game winning streak coming to a halt, it’s important to keep perspective and know that the season has been a success up to this point. It’s also important to face reality — that this ship may be a lot flimsier than we thought.
Two Sundays ago, the San Diego Chargers played what may have been their worst game of the season. Yes, they eked out a 31-28 victory, but it was against a winless Raiders team that hadn’t scored more than 14 points all year.
The refrain in the locker room afterward was that, in the NFL, everybody has a game like that. Well, now the San Diego Chargers have had two in a row — and the schedule is only getting harder.”
To read more of this article, click here.
D.J. Fluker, aka the San Diego Chargers starting offensive tackle, has experienced more heartache and life changes than most would expect from an NFL player.
“While Fluker’s current job is to protect Rivers, it was an unprotected river that marked the defining moment of his severe childhood that put him on a path of displacement, destitution and devastation.
For all the natural disasters that come without warning, Hurricane Katrina’s reputation preceded her arrival. In August 2005, residents of New Orleans knew a storm was coming. That included the Fluker family: D.J, his mother, two sisters and brother had left town and taken refuge in nearby Biloxi, Miss., when the storm hit. They were safe, but when the muddy Mississippi breached its banks, the Flukers’ modest home in the Lower Ninth Ward was destroyed. Without insurance or their possessions, they were suddenly consigned to living in their Ford Escort, all five of them. D.J. was 14 at the time and already weighed close to 400 pounds.Often homeless and penniless, the family pinballed across the Delta, to Mississippi to Alabama to New Orleans in search of stability. “We struggled and struggled and struggled some more,” Fluker recalls. “We went church to church, shelter to shelter. Sometimes we couldn’t do that so we would sleep in the car.”
D.J. remembers nights when the family would have no food and would eat out of the garbage dumpsters at fast food restaurants. Other times, he says, he and his siblings would wear pants smelling of urine because they had nowhere to wash their clothes.”
To read more on this amazing story, click here.
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